About me and Let’s Sit With That
Let’s Sit With That is a space for slowing down mental health discourse—especially at a moment when therapy language is everywhere, but care itself often feels harder to access, harder to sustain, and harder to make sense of.
I’m a therapist, researcher, and policy practitioner with training in social work, religion and bioethics, and public health. I’ve spent my career moving between clinical practice, qualitative research, and systems-level policy—working with people navigating anxiety, burnout, substance use, and life transitions, while also studying and shaping the structures that determine who gets care, how, and on what terms.
This publication is where those worlds meet.
Here, I write about therapy and mental health without pretending there are easy answers. I’m interested in what gets lost when complex psychological ideas are flattened into “just set a boundary” or “just heal your nervous system,” and in what it actually takes to support people living inside real constraints—economic, relational, medical, and political.
You’ll find reflections on therapy culture, care ethics, stigma, burnout, substance use, and the systems that quietly shape our inner lives. Sometimes that means sitting with discomfort. Sometimes it means naming contradictions. Often it means resisting the urge to rush toward resolution.
This isn’t a space for hot takes (ok, maybe a few hot takes) or self-optimization. It’s a space for thinking out loud, staying curious, and taking care seriously—especially when it’s complicated.
If you’ve ever felt like mental health advice moved too fast for your lived experience, you’re in the right place.
For those who care (or find credentials matter), I hold a PhD in social work and social science research, an MSW with a specialization in community and policy practice, and an MDiv with a specialization in gender and bioethics. I am also a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina and California. You can learn more about my therapy practice at www.KateRobertsLCSW.com
